Design and implementation of a block storage multi-protocol converter

Author

Gerasimov, Irina ; Zhuravlev, Alexey ; Pershin, Mikhail ; Gerasimov, Dennis V.

Author_Institution

TechnoMages, Inc., Baltimore, MD, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

7-10 April 2003

Firstpage

183

Lastpage

188

Abstract

We present the Block Storage Multi-Protocol Converter (BSMC) software architecture, which is able to translate and manage SCSI commands carried by different SCSI transport protocols, such as SCSI, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI, to a variety of storage devices. We discuss the internal organization of BSMC and present some performance testing results. We describe the variety of applications in Storage Area Networking that can benefit from products based on the BSMC architecture, such as a multi-protocol storage router and a multi-protocol, multi-RAID-level disk array.

Keywords

file servers; local area networks; performance evaluation; peripheral interfaces; software architecture; transport protocols; BSMC architecture; Block Storage Multi-Protocol Converter software architecture; Fibre Channel; SCSI commands; SCSI transport protocols; Storage Area Networking; iSCSI; internal organization; multi-protocol storage router; multiprotocol multi-RAID-level disk array; performance testing; Access protocols; Application software; Computer architecture; Linux; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber testing; Software architecture; Storage area networks; TCPIP; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, 2003. (MSST 2003). Proceedings. 20th IEEE/11th NASA Goddard Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1914-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASS.2003.1194855

Filename

1194855